Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Winchester Cathedral" by The New Vaudeville Band
In the UK:
"Green Grass Of Home" by Tom Jones
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Winthrop Rockefeller
(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 1966)
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Famous people born on the 6th of December: |
1285 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)
1421 - King Henry VI of England (d. 1471)
1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
1792 - King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
1948 - Keke Rosberg, Finnish race car driver
1956 - Peter Buck, American guitarist (R.E.M.)
1961 - David Lovering, American drummer (the Pixies)
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1966 |
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Robert S. Mulliken
1896-1986
for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method
USA
University of Chicago - Chicago, IL, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1966 (USA) |
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$0.60 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1966 |
A Man for All Seasons
directed by Fred Zinnemann
with Paul Scofield (Sir Thomas More), Robert Shaw (King Henry VIII) and Wendy Hiller (Alice More)
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Designed in 1966 |
The Helicoid staircase
by Roger Tallon |
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